DevOps Job Trends in Swansea

DevOps
West Wales > Swansea

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Swansea requiring DevOps skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 8 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 -2
Permanent jobs citing DevOps 41 5 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Swansea 12.09% 11.36% 15.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 17.45% 14.71% 19.59%
Number of salaries quoted 41 5 25
10th Percentile - - £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £37,733 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,124 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.70% +0.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £70,000 £53,762 £52,500
90th Percentile £73,750 - £55,000
West Wales median annual salary £60,000 £50,124 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.70% +0.25% +11.11%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swansea

DevOps falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Swansea.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 235 34 148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Swansea 69.32% 77.27% 80.00%
Number of salaries quoted 157 27 128
10th Percentile £31,400 £21,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £37,733 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.76% -24.53% +17.65%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,762 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,241 £59,857 £70,000
West Wales median annual salary £50,000 £37,733 £45,000
% change year-on-year +32.51% -16.15% +5.88%

DevOps
Job Vacancy Trend in Swansea

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing DevOps relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Swansea.

DevOps job vacancy trend in Swansea

DevOps
Salary Trend in Swansea

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Swansea citing DevOps

DevOps
Salary Histogram in Swansea

Salary distribution for jobs citing DevOps in Swansea over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for DevOps in Swansea

DevOps
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swansea by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (19.51%) Confluence
2 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.44%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 34 (82.93%) Azure
2 24 (58.54%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (41.46%) AWS
4 10 (24.39%) GCP
5 7 (17.07%) AWS CloudFormation
5 7 (17.07%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (17.07%) Serverless
6 5 (12.20%) Azure AI
6 5 (12.20%) GitHub
6 5 (12.20%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (7.32%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.44%) Datadog
8 1 (2.44%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.51%) MongoDB
2 6 (14.63%) NoSQL
3 5 (12.20%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (9.76%) MySQL
4 4 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (7.32%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (29.27%) JIRA
2 7 (17.07%) Git
2 7 (17.07%) Selenium
3 6 (14.63%) JUnit
4 5 (12.20%) Jenkins
5 4 (9.76%) GitLab
5 4 (9.76%) Postman
6 3 (7.32%) Cypress.io
6 3 (7.32%) Newman
6 3 (7.32%) REST Assured
6 3 (7.32%) TestRail
6 3 (7.32%) Zephyr
7 1 (2.44%) Bugzilla
7 1 (2.44%) Mocha
7 1 (2.44%) RSpec
General
1 19 (46.34%) Public Sector
2 12 (29.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.20%) Marketing
5 4 (9.76%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (9.76%) Finance
6 3 (7.32%) Banking
7 2 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (36.59%) Developer
2 9 (21.95%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Azure Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) DevOps Engineer
2 9 (21.95%) Junior
2 9 (21.95%) Junior DevOps
2 9 (21.95%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 7 (17.07%) Software Developer
4 6 (14.63%) Lead
4 6 (14.63%) Senior
5 5 (12.20%) .NET Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Principal Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Principal Software Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Agile Delivery Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Manager
6 3 (7.32%) Senior Software Developer
6 3 (7.32%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (31.71%) Spring
1 13 (31.71%) Spring Boot
2 12 (29.27%) React
2 12 (29.27%) RESTful
3 10 (24.39%) Node.js
4 7 (17.07%) Ruby on Rails
5 6 (14.63%) .NET
5 6 (14.63%) Hibernate
5 6 (14.63%) JPA
5 6 (14.63%) Kafka
5 6 (14.63%) RabbitMQ
6 5 (12.20%) .NET Core
6 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET
6 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (12.20%) Blazor
6 5 (12.20%) ML.NET
7 4 (9.76%) CSS
7 4 (9.76%) HTML
7 4 (9.76%) Jest
7 4 (9.76%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (31.71%) Cloud Native
2 9 (21.95%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (21.95%) Product Ownership
3 7 (17.07%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (14.63%) Mainframe
5 5 (12.20%) Onboarding
6 3 (7.32%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (7.32%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) AIX
2 1 (2.44%) Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) Agile
2 22 (53.66%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
3 19 (46.34%) Scrum
4 18 (43.90%) CI/CD
5 16 (39.02%) Microservices
6 12 (29.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (29.27%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (29.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (26.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 11 (26.83%) Observability
8 10 (24.39%) Collaborative Working
8 10 (24.39%) Kanban
8 10 (24.39%) Project Delivery
9 9 (21.95%) Full-Stack Development
9 9 (21.95%) Technical Leadership
10 8 (19.51%) AI
10 8 (19.51%) Decision-Making
11 7 (17.07%) Incident Management
11 7 (17.07%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (39.02%) Java
2 9 (21.95%) JavaScript
2 9 (21.95%) SQL
3 8 (19.51%) C#
4 7 (17.07%) Ruby
5 5 (12.20%) Python
6 4 (9.76%) Bicep
7 3 (7.32%) Go
7 3 (7.32%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (2.44%) Bash
Qualifications
1 4 (9.76%) ISTQB
1 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
1 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 2 (4.88%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.88%) PMP
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.44%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) CBAP
4 1 (2.44%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.63%) Accessibility
1 6 (14.63%) QA
1 6 (14.63%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (34.15%) Docker
2 1 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (31.71%) Kubernetes
1 13 (31.71%) Terraform
2 4 (9.76%) Grafana
2 4 (9.76%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.76%) Google
2 4 (9.76%) OneLogin
3 3 (7.32%) Oracle
3 3 (7.32%) Splunk